The Tragedy of Macbeth

Measure for Measure: Live from The Globe(en)

William Shakespeare's darkest comedy, Measure for Measure. Live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, this television production of the play was broadcast on BBC4 on Sept 4, 2004. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian David Starkey, actress Juliet Stevenson and the production’s director John Dove. Starring Mark Rylance, Liam Brennan and Sophie Thompson.

RSC Live: The Comedy of Errors(en)

One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found. This production was captured by Digital Theatre live at the Clapham Community Project. It was devised specifically for schools and families by the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with critically acclaimed theatre company, Told by an Idiot. Directed by Paul Hunter, it features a cast made up from the RSC’s ensemble and uses a pared down script, props, live music and physical comedy to convey the story.

As You Like It(de)

An animated adaptation of the famous play by William Shakespeare. It transposes the setting to a Southeast-Asian environment. Created in close collaboration with the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and its director Prof. Michael Dobson.

Father's Day(en)

Joe wants out but the Don won't take no for an answer. Carl lays a plan to use Alison as the bait. Will it work, or will Joe walk away?

And Again We Are Going Up(ja)

Kaede, Ryota, Mana, Asahi, Haruka, Soshi, and Tatsumi were friends in high school. When they turned 22 years old, the six of them get together to visit their alma mater. They stop by the library and find a book on séance techniques, and then begin to perform "Kagome" necromancy. Kaede, who is the least enthusiastic, has a secret between her and Tatsumi, who died before graduation.

Distortion(en)

A woman awakens from a coma to flashes of the memory of her family's brutal murder, but without any solid memory to assist the police in catching the killer. Without her memory, she never knows who she can trust and who is plotting.

FEED(en)

A woman struggles to care for her comatose son after a traumatic brain injury - and reckons with his bizarre new personality when he awakes.

Cabbage(en)

On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that what they once desired may lead to their own unraveling.

Stalker(pt)

Duyen Ma(vi)

"Duyen Ma" originates from the strange fate of Minh (Kieu Minh Tuan) when he became a ghost for no reason and met Ngoc (Ngoc Trinh). Everything would be nothing special if Ngoc didn't see Minh and along with the "three cadas of 3 ghosts" who were mischievous but kind enough to help him from the homeless spirit gradually get used to ghost making. However, the magic nature is not equal to the love nature, Ngoc and Minh fall in love with each other. From here, it has "triggered" so many troubles, especially when there is the appearance of the mysterious ghost Bach Cat.

Overnight Walk(ja)

Sakura is a 27-year-old unsuccessful actress. She was wondering whether or not to accept a nude offer. Then, Sakura's older sister Yuriko suddenly comes to visit her in Tokyo. The younger sister who abandoned her hometown and the older sister who never left. The two sisters begin a midnight walk from Shimokitazawa to Shinjuku.

Specially You(es)

Annais, a high school student, runs away from home and goes to live with Leonardo, her 13-years-older-than-her ex-teacher. After being mistreated, she realizes that she needs to escape.

Alone and Together(es)

During a casual party, Guillermo incites Jonathan to drink alcohol.

Onion Underwater(en)

Ten minutes into the future a drug is invented called "GOD". This drug allows its user to actually commune with God. There is one drawback however... the user will die. This hasn't stopped thousands of people from taking it.

The Reawakening(en)

After returning from their best friend's funeral, Samuel and Lucas happen upon a mysterious board. Believing it to be a sign from their late friend, they decide to use it to commune with him, until a far more sinister presence makes itself known.

Insult(en)

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

White Gardenia: The King James Bible(en)

"White Gardenia: The King James Bible" is an epic-scaled avant-garde underground project that will cover both the Old and New Testament, featuring segments from various filmmakers and their beautifully extreme visions of the myriad of biblical stories.

A way for Tomás(es)

Tomás, desperate, knocks insistently on the door of a lonely house. Nobody opens it. When he leaves the place, he sees some bushes moving and goes into a wooded path. Along the way, from his memories, he faces several episodes of fear in his life until he reaches the exit of the path, which takes him back to the door of the house. Tomás enters and talks with a woman (who represents death), at which point he decides to face his fears.

Suiheisen(ja)

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy(en)

Macbeth usurps the Scottish throne by murdering his predecessor.

National Theatre Live: Saint Joan(en)

Josie Rourke directs Gemma Arterton as Joan of Arc in Bernard Shaw's electrifying classic. Performed at the Donmar Warehouse, and part of the NT Live series of broadcasts.

Box(en)

A doomsday pepper is surprised to find a mysterious box appear in his living room with no trace as to how it could've gotten there.

Fade Away(en)

In a city where the high school drop out rate is at its highest, a pre-destined path of murder, crime, and drug trafficking seems to be the only way of life for teenagers growing up in Liberty City.

Es pecado... pero me gusta(es)

Fabrizzio hired the services of a prostitute to pretend to be his wife and accompany him to spend a weekend in the country house of his friend Romolo, where Aristides Almirante, an important official of the Ministry of Health, has also been invited. the approval of a new medicine of doubtful effectiveness called Fagatín, whose patent Fabrizzio owns.

Profitörerna(en)

Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.

Il prezzo dell'Anima(it)

Red(pt)

Box(en)

A group of friends try to defeat an evil king, and meet some quirky characters along the way.

Timber War(en)

The owners of a lumber mill hire an investigator to find out who is sabotaging their mill.

Grand Slam(en)

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Dionisos(en)

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into unconsciousness, the night unveils a haunting struggle between personal demons and the unending flow of existence.

The Field of Gray Dreams(en)

A group of junkies go to a deserted part of town at night to get high. They cross paths with "the one in the woods". After that moment it is impossible to know where the journey is to.

L'Ave Maria(it)

Oil's Well(en)

In this one, Oswald is wooing his girlfriend (who looks like a cat) on a canoe. Like Felix the Cat, Oswald sometimes uses his tail for something other than wagging, in this case, he uses it as an outboard motor to bring the boat to shore.

Baby Blues(fr)

One hot summer's day in a little french town, a building worker accidentally finds the skeleton of a newborn baby and calls the police. Detective Jacques Deveure (Vincent Winterhalter) is placed in charge of the investigation. His investigation uncovers evidence of numerous shady dealings, revealing a strange underbelly of the private lives of a cadre of people including Grandier (Francois Berleand) and Blandine Piancet (Audrey Tautou). This multi-layered story continually unveils new twists and turns.

Dubrovsky(ru)

A young master, Vladimir Dubrovsky, comes to the estate to visit his father, who has long been in litigation with his neighbor, the despotic landowner Troekurov. Having seriously insulted Dubrovsky Sr., Troekurov tries to go to peace, but the proud old man is adamant.

Inès(fr)

Caught up in a symbiotic relationship with her father, Inès (20 years old) embarks on a difficult path to try to escape from this imposing man in order to build her own identity and become an adult woman.

The Sawdust Ring(en)

Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds's circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar. The original, feature-length release of "The Sawdust Ring" is not known to survive.

Vamos por la parejita(es)

Antonio Garisa is Juan Fernández Arriaga, a typicall spanish man fifty years ago. He's married and has five girls, but he is unhappy because all he wanted was a boy (in spanish argot, "ir por la parejita" means trying to have a couple of children, girl and boy). He only has women and they have only girls. During the film he prays, he tries to have a boy to give him his surname "Fernández". Garisa is one of the best actors of Spanish Comedy, maybe too understimate because the kind of cinema made in Spain during Franco's government.